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Originally Posted by brandonstills
The only hosting companies that I can max out my bandwidth to are The Planet / Host Gator and Soft Layer.
I've gone through Reliable Hosting, Webair, and Caro and got rid of them shortly after because I could only download and upload to them at a small fraction of my bandwidth.
I'm uploading to Webair right now for a client and it's only going at a measly 50 KB/s. I can upload at slightly over 200 KB/s with my connection to Soft Layer and The Planet.
What gives?
I have Time Warner Cable (business class cable) in Chatsworth. 15 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up. Speakeasy speed tests all the way to the East Coast get me around 12 Mbps down and 1.2 Mbps up and yet why can't I transfer to/from these hosting companies at even close to that?
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When I had a 56K modem my connection would be 56K-115K according to "whatever", but the best download speed I ever got on a file was 5K.
Your connection speed based on "speed tests" and what TW Cable tells you that your speed is, has nothing to do with how fast you can actually download or upload files.
Try downloading files from other hosts to compare instead of using a speakeasy test....even then though, that only tells you the speed from that host to you, that doesn't necessarily mean that host will have the best speed to your customers.
I get better download speeds from sites hosted on WVfiber than I do sites hosted on Level3....but which network do you think is better to be hosted on?